Tonetta Carlisle was 15 when she was abducted in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on March 16, 1989. She was walking home from City High School on Hamilton Avenue around 2:55 p.m. when witnesses say a tan and yellow van pulled up, several people dragged her inside and drove off. A citizen and her husband chased the vehicle and obtained the Tennessee license plate LKH 920.

Tonetta was last seen wearing a pink and white striped blouse, a denim skirt and white sneakers. She is 5 feet 1 inch tall, about 95 pounds, with curly black hair cut short on top and sides and longer in back, and brown almond-shaped eyes. The plate was traced to Jeffrey Jones, who had a prior conviction for rape and aggravated sexual assault and had been released about a year before the abduction.

Jones was found dead in his van on March 18, 1989, an apparent suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning; he left no note. Reports of unconfirmed sightings and trafficking rumors circulated over the years. The Chattanooga District Attorney’s Office reopened the cold case in 2019 and collected DNA from Tonetta’s mother and brother. Does anyone have information about Tonetta’s whereabouts or the van with plate LKH 920?